Meanwhile in the great walking cities of the world, yes, there are cars everywhere, they litter the sidewalks of Paris, they are buzzing all over Rome, they are blasting down 7th Avenue in NYC right outside the Village Vanguard and this entire notion that cars deter pedestrians is demonstrably false.

One simple move that would have made a big difference to pedestrians is if the Mirabella building was set back another 6 or 8 feet from Denny, making room for a wider sidewalk and planting strip to buffer people from the traffic zooming by right along the curb.